Book notes: How the elite get (and stay) ahead: confidence. A look at Lauren Rivera’s Pedigree: How Elite Students Get Elite Jobs. (Economist)
Engineering
- How the Airbus A380 creates its own weather. (bloomberg.com)
- Vertical farms are the future of food. (theatlantic.com)
- Solar is the fastest growing energy source in the US. (bloomberg.com)
Autonomous vehicles
- We're still a long ways from a fully autonomous truck. (bloombergview.com)
- What autonomous cars change and what they don't. (qz.com)
- On the (long) odds of ever having a self-driving train. (bloombergview.com)
Health
- How to eat healthier at restaurants. (nytimes.com)
- Sodium reduction is a big waste of time. (washingtonpost.com)
- More good news for coffee drinkers. (huffingtonpost.com)
- Why C. Diff is flourishing. (well.blogs.nytimes.com)
- Myopia is on the rise. (ft.com)
The brain
- When you are hungry you want "everything." (wsj.com)
- Creative thinking can also lead to ethical shortcuts. (psmag.com)
- How meditation changes the brain. (washingtonpost.com)
- How typography affects our perception of the truth. (m.fastcompany.com)
Food
- These are dark days for KFC. (washingtonpost.com)
- Fast food companies are getting religion on artificial ingredients. (buzzfeed.com)
- You can't trust the labels on dark chocolate. (washingtonpost.com)
- Comparing the cost of home-delivered meals vs. Whole Foods ($WFM). (marketwatch.com)
- New Zealand is getting out the sheep business. (bloomberg.com)
Entertainment
- Where Hollywood is wrong about the future of TV. (redef.com)
- Netflix ($NFLX) dominates bandwidth usage. (variety.com)
Sports
- Inspired by Japanese baseball, five ways to fix MLB. (sportsonearth.com)
- Ground balls in MLB are soaring. (wsj.com)
- Whipping a race horse: how much is too much? (wsj.com)
- Why John Nash matters to sports geeks. (fivethirtyeight.com)
- Why FIFA was vulnerable to corruption. (fivethirtyeight.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- What you may have missed in our Friday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Podcast links: an apple revolution. (abnormalreturns.com)
Mixed media
- University health centers are full of anxious students. (well.blogs.nytimes.com)
- Young women are giving up on organized religion. (washingtonpost.com)
- Five ways you are doing e-mail wrong (and rudely, to boot). (qz.com)
- Why do former high school athletes make more later in life? (theatlantic.com)
- A brief history of the to-do list. (farnamstreetblog.com)
